The Frontier Woman —
Dorsey Woman Hopes Winter of
1949-’50 Will Not Be Same As Last
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
Hi there, all you nice peo
ple! It’s hard to believe but
this is the last Thursday in
August and September is
knocking at our. door. With
school just around the corner
and that old lunch box grind
is staring all the rural moth
<*rs in the face again.
Ah me! Life is just one
task after another, isn’t it?
Since I had years of pack
ing school lunches, I did learn
a few hints
ana iaeas
that I ’ d
like to pass
on to you
folks. Maybe
I’ve men*
tioned them
to you be
fore, but if
I have, those
of you who
have heard
Blanche Spann them, can
Pees* Pass 0 v* r
p**se and to those
they are new can take heed.
If your child must carry a
lunch regularly, it seems to me
that a good lunch kit should be
indispensable.
A lunchbox with a heavy steel
case, equipped with a pint ther
mos bottle which rides firmly
seems the ideal type. Smaller
kits can also be obtained which
contain a half pint vacuum bot
tle
The lunch kit should be wash-1
ed and scalded regularly each
night and the thermos bottle
should be rinsed with warm soa
py water to which a teaspoon of
soda has been added and then
rinsed with hot water. The cork
can be boiled often to keep it
fresh and clean. The bottle
should be left uncorked over
night and the lunch kit open.
Now for accessories for your
child’s school lunch.
Recently I saw some Roy Rog
ers paper napkins. Small boys
and girls would get a kick out
of these napkins for school lun
ches, wouldn’t they? I’ll say!
These are made on beige colored
paper with a picture of Roy and
his horse on them.
Watch the 10-cent stores for
new ideas in paper napkins.
Send two napkins with the
lunch. One should be used for a
tablecloth on the child’s desk.
Now and then, as a change from
paper napkins you might like to
send bright cloth napkins in the
school lunch.
Do you use sandwich bags at
least part of the time for wrap
ping the sandwiches? You can
buy them at your favorite gro
cery store and they’re so handy.
You can use them for relishes,
pickles, washed dried fruits, car
rot strips, pepper rings, and cel
ery, too. Part of the time you
can use waxed paper to keep
sandwiches fresh.
Thi* will help to keep the
lunch from falling into that
dreadful monotonous routine
which so many school children
must face day-after-day and
month-after-month.
You can buy waxed paper
baking cups at your grocer’s.
Sometimes they come in colors.
Use them in baking cup cakes.
They’ll help to keep the cup
cakes moist longer, make cup
cakes easier to handle for the
voungsters and will “dress”
them up. They’ll save work for
you, too.
Dixie food cups, with covers,
are so handy for sending salads,
gelatin deserts, and puddings in
the lunch box. They look better,
carry well and save you work in
washing dishes. For the dixie
cups can be disposed of at school,
and not even brought home.
Waxed colored drinking
straws are also a delightful ad
dition to the school lunch box.
Any child will tell you that co
coa, milk, or such type of drink
tastes twice as good when it is
imbibed “through a straw.” Buy
.some of these accessories now
and then, if not all the time, for
they will do much to brighten
up your child’s school lunch, |
and they cost only a few cents.
Watch your five and 10-cent;
store for other school lunch i
deas, such as the plastic contain
er for a piece of pie that is some
times featured, bright plastic
spoons and forks for “now and
then” use.
And if the teacher boards at
your house and must take school
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lunches, wc know that it goes
without saying she will appreci
ate the nicety with which you
pack the school lunch.
Thefe are other ideas to pep
up the school lunch also. For In
stance, have you considered the
various attractive cookie cutters?
Any mother knows that cookies,
cut in new shapes, are more ap
pealing. Frankly, they are mode
attractive to grownups, too We
all like a change now and then.
So, if you have a dollar to spare,
buy a set of new cookie cutters
and put them to good use.
Then there are the various
food colors and sugars which
may be used to brighten up cup
cakes and cookies. Colored ic
ings, sparkling sugars and nhoc
olate shot are certainly appreci
ated by the children. We all
know that if the child is not too
small, an individual miniature
pie will take its eye. The pie
baked in the small individual pan
and sent packed in the lunch box
does much for the child’s lunch.
Or, the small pies can be baked
in muffin tins. Of course, you
understand, these pies are the
sturdier two-crust type.
There is now on the mar
ket plastic food bags which
are fine for enclosing sand
wiches to keep them moist and
edible and some of the smaller
bags are grand for enclosing
cake and such. Try sending
these sometimes to make
something different in the
lunch box.
Keep on the lookout for ideas
like these, that will help to
make the school lunch more in
leresting. For, just as food is not
;he whole story when served at
iome, so it is with the school
lunch which has a tendency
inyway to be too monotonous.
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Dear Mrs. Pease:
I really enjoy your column in
The Frontier! I like the letters
uest that have a pen-name signa
ture. There have been several
from our community printed
and signed with pen-names. I
Sandhill Sal
Someone wrote to the doctor
and asked him what to do for
cold feet. The doctor replied the
best thing he knew was to warm
them. Another sensible answer
to one of life’s little problems.
The newspapers say nowadays
that prices are on the decline.
Any day now we may surprise
ourselves by finding something
we can buy for a nickel.
I see where the other day some
millionaire said “working was
like fun.” Like fun it is!
Keep a fruit jar on the kitch
en shelf, somebody writes, and
drop a dime in it now and then.
You’ll be surprised how fast the
dimes will count up. Ah ha, and
surprising how fast one shakes a
dime out. too!
enjoy trying to decide which of
my neighbors and friends write
the letters. (But do you decide
right, Mrs. Pease?)
My but these are busy days
on the farm. Threshing, haying,
laying by corn and then there
are cucumbers, tomatoes and
beans to pick and the fruit can
ning is now in full swing! Sew
ing must be wedged in between
these other jobs. Soon school
will be starting and who coula
start their “small fry” to school
without the new colorful print
dresses so important to their
ego?
Like many other mothers I
shall shed a few secret tears
when school starts this Fall for
one of my children will be a first
grader. It is not my initial ex
perience with “first days” at j
school. But each child that takes
his first step into the world a
lone deserves those tears his
mother sheds secretly for him.
It is one of the stages of
growing up and mother's heart
knows her "baby" has become
a person on his own and will
never be quite so dependent
on her agai.n That is as it
should be, but her heart can
not help being sad.
Before we realize it, Summer
will have faded and Fall and
Winter will again be at our door.
God grant that it is not a repeat
performance of the last one. i
had always thought I much pre
ferred Winter to the Summer’s
heat. But I definitely decided
there is nothing of the polar bear
about my makeup.
This letter has grown to quite
some length so I had better
close. I sincerely hope you re
ceive an abundance of letters in
reply to your call for more mail
for I do enjoy reading them.
A DORSEY FARMERETTE
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Quick Tricks—
These days, most of us are
busier than a small boy with
two melting ice cream cones.
The quick, slick, trick that can
save us time is always welcome.
Se maybe you’d like to know
that a box of chocolate chips
spread on a cake when it is still
hot in the oven, makes a good
icing and one that is quick. Sweet
milk chocolate bars melted over
hot water also are very good on
cakes and quickly made.
I always line my cake pans
with waxed paper. They’re eas
ier to remove from pans and
saves washing the pans. Cut
waxed paper to fit the pan, set
pan on waxed paper and draw a
round witr sharp knife, use scis
sors to cut if necessary. A two
inch strip of waxed paper may
be placed in first and ends al
lowed to extend over edge of
the pan. In loaf pans, for nut
bread, place two strips of waxed
paper, one lengthwise and one
crosswise, with edges extending j
beyond pan.
If you are chopping food, sev-1
eral stalks or strips chopped at ,
the same time, sames time! , |
Sift flour on waxed paper,
saves dishwashing. It is handy
and the waxed paper can be us
ed again.
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Frontier Woman
Needs Letters—
Oh, that letter-hungry Frontier
woman. She always needs letters
for her department and she
needs them right now! When
this column is printed, it will be
time for me to be editing the
October issues of The Fronteir
Woman and I’ll need lots and
lots of letters. If nothing hap
pens, I plan to take a vacation
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